Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence has taken modernization as the criterion from the first day of building his territory, so for him, the traditional feudal people are not what the island needs.

Although those traditional, less educated people are more ignorant and more likely to blindly obey their lords. But it is definitely not possible to rely on these people to develop the island well.

Therefore, Lawrence actually hopes that workers with various skills or agricultural workers will immigrate to the island, so that the level of the entire territory can be improved and qualified manpower can be provided for industrial upgrading on the island.

However, because the territory of Lawrence was remote and inconspicuous before, the immigrants who came to the island were mainly ordinary workers and farmers, and even some desperate refugees, and the quality of these people was obviously not satisfactory.

Fortunately, Lawrence had sufficient contacts before, so he was able to gather enough people to carry out various knowledge research on this island called a knowledge wasteland.

In addition, Lawrence invested a lot of resources in education as soon as he came to the island. Hope to lay a solid foundation for the future development of the island.

But even with this two-pronged approach, the number of such skilled workers relative to the jobs needed is still limited relative to those industries on New Shore Island.

However, after Nora successfully ignited the magic fire, the composition of immigrants on the island was finally close to the occupational ratio of normal immigration destinations. At least after learning about the situation on the island, many technicians chose to come to the island.

When going through customs, technical personnel will be directly screened out, and then assigned to urgently needed positions after some quick tests.

The reason for this is that these technicians basically come out of industrialized society, so they understand what the modern world should be like, so they don't need some additional training.

However, except for a small number of technical personnel, most of these new immigrants used to be traditional farmers rather than agricultural workers, and they did not adapt to the overall situation on the island.

. Therefore, for most of the new immigrants, they need a certain degree of training and change their thinking after they land on the island before they can integrate into the environment of the island.

Obviously, boring classrooms are not very effective for these illiterate and semi-literate people. On the contrary, the semi-mandatory collective labor of controlling food and housing and giving a little money can make these new immigrants understand the situation on the island. And accept the management of the island.

Therefore, these new immigrants can just provide sufficient labor for these large-scale construction projects on the island, and at the same time, they can also train these new immigrants to integrate into the environment of the island as much as possible.

Therefore, this collective construction site on New Sauer Island is also different from ordinary construction sites. In addition to normal labor, some simple skills training and literacy work will also be arranged. To ensure that they can smoothly integrate into society after the big project is over.

It is obviously not an easy task to get this lot of work done, so in the next month or so, all the staff on the entire island have been busy working overtime.

Until this day, after Lawrence signed a batch of orders on the deployment of materials, he just wanted to have dinner with Safir, but before he went out, Lawrence saw his adoptive father, Mr. Lambert, coming to find him.

"Father, what's the matter?" Lawrence was surprised when he saw that Lambert had come to his office to find him.

Because he only knew that his father was a standard clergyman, he usually only stayed in his church to complete religious affairs or do his favorite experiments or inventions, and rarely came to him.

"I think you should be busy with everything recently. When are you going to get married?" After closing the door and entering the room and sitting down, Mr. Lambert asked Lawrence a very familiar question.

"Uh--I'm already engaged to Safiel, haven't I? In theory, as long as we get engaged, the various relationships between the two families can be completely resolved." Lawrence asked with some doubts.

It wasn't that he was making excuses because he was afraid of marriage, but that according to tradition, nobles valued engagement much more than marriage itself. Because the engagement is related to the formation of a special alliance between the two families.

Therefore, this kind of ceremony is often more lively, and at the same time, the whole ceremony process is very formal, and even for many wealthy nobles, various grand ceremonies may be held.

However, compared to the lively engagement ceremony, when it comes to the formal wedding, the overall appearance is very low-key, and sometimes only a few friends of the husband and wife, close relatives of the family, may even participate.

Of course, not all engagement ceremonies of nobles are very lively. At least Lawrence and Jaephil's engagement ceremony was crude.

This was mainly because the entire territory had just begun to be developed at that time, and the entire area was in the initial stage of creation, so no luxurious ceremony could be held at all. At the same time, the overall atmosphere at that time was indeed not suitable for such a luxurious thing.

Therefore, Lawrence has always hoped to give Safir a more suitable wedding to make up for the various deficiencies in the previous engagement ceremony.

"Do you have a problem with Miss Coburg?" After listening to Lawrence's words, Mr. Lambert shook his head slightly, and then looked at Lawrence and asked very seriously.

"No, of course not." Lawrence immediately shook his head and said that he did not have any dissatisfaction with his fiancée. "It's just that I've been too busy recently, so I want to put this time later—"

"I know that for most nobles, it may take several years or even more than ten years to get married after the engagement ends, but that often only happens to those nobles who were engaged in childhood."

Realizing that it wasn't that his son didn't want to marry, Mr. Lambert explained what was going on.

"It doesn't matter that the situation between you and Safir is different from the marriages of most nobles, because you are not traditional nobles, so you didn't form a marriage relationship until you reached adulthood."

"So from various perspectives, your current marriage is closer to the marriage of ordinary people. Therefore, from various perspectives, it is more appropriate to get married within one year after getting engaged."

"At least in my opinion, you'd better marry Safiel as soon as possible. This is a good thing for Safiel and the entire territory."

"For Miss Coburg, getting married for a short time after being engaged is actually fulfilling your promise. As for some external things you are worried about, I believe he will not care about it."

"Because for those excellent people, they want to see their partner's sincerity, and don't pay too much attention to those external things. And Miss Coburg is such an excellent person."

Having said that, Mr. Lambert paused. And from his absent-minded eyes for a moment, Lawrence understood that his adoptive father should be thinking of his mother he had never met again.

Fortunately, it took a long time for that incident, so Mr. Lambert returned to normal soon. Then he spoke to Lawrence.

"In addition to considering personal issues, as a nobleman, you also have to consider territorial issues. For the people in the territory, the marriage of the lord is very beneficial to improve the cohesion of the people."

"Because for most people with low education, the life of the lord is closely related to them. And for a good lord like you, everyone naturally hopes that you can get married as soon as possible."

"Because in most people's minds, the sign of a person's maturity is to conclude a marriage relationship, and it is very important for a lord to give people a sense of maturity, which can make the subjects feel more at ease."